Hi guys, this is my first post to this mail list. Forgive my noob questions, I am new to boost. I have read some documentations but still dont understand how io_service works. My problem is that I need two functions in my server class, listen() and handle() listen() is to accept all incoming connections and bind them with a handler function which accept a socket as argument. and handler will simply call io_service.run() ========================= class Server { io_service IOService; std::vector<boost:: ... :: socket> SocketVector; listen() { //blocking accept all incoming connection and bind socket with handleSocket } HandleRequest() { //io_service.run(); } } ============================ handleSocket(*Socket) { //handleSocket; } ============================== main() { boost::thread t1(&Server::listen, &myServer); boost::thread t2(&Server::HandleRequest, &myServer); } ==================================== my understanding is that everytime you instantiate a new socket object with a constructor including a io_service object, this socket object is associated with the io_service object, since I only have one io_service object, these socket object will be executed when I call io_service.run()but, the question is, how do i assign handle_function to those socket, I saw people use acceptor.async_accept(socket, boost::bind(handler, &socket)) like this, But I want to use accept rather than async_accept(), but the accept() function cant be used to bind a handler function to this socket Thank you